chromoly

[fnkrngr]

What are you guys paying for 4130 1.5 tubing 95 wall?

You dont know the looks i get with this truck on the east coast.

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[KitRacer]

i pay 2.62 a foot for .120, not sure about .095

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[Custom_Yota]

where do you get your chromoly at Kit racer? 2.62 a foot is a good deal. Is that price for everyone or just you? Regular mild is like 1.00 a foot so 2.60 isn't that much more.
thANX

[hoeker]

almost triple!!!!

the cost of moly is very, very dependent on how much you buy. my quotes for my new truck varied by 150%!!

FWIW...
for the novice / street vehicle stay away from moly! DOM in a crash may bend, saving your life. moly tends to crack. yes, all the best racecars are moly, including my new truck, but it took 2 months of talking to convince me to go moly even on my race truck. the biggest difference that i see is in a dedicated race vehicle there are way more bars than any part time race/street machine will ever have. strength in numbers! Another thing that would make me shy away is anything using a stock frame. you just can't engineer the thing good enough to make moly work. i am also going to use mild steel gussets at every joint to keep the joint from cracking.

i've seen some really scary results from crashes with moly, and these were cars built by some of the best fabricators in the country. make sure you know what you're getting into before building a moly cage.

my $.02

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[KitRacer]

the deal is through my friend Seth at Amplified Performance, that is his cost, i dont know who he gets it from or how much he would resell it for, but i will ask next time i see him, i know that i can by one stick or a thousand sticks and its all 2.62 a foot. before Seth started helping me out, the best price i could get was 2.92 a foot and that was for about 400 feet

At baseball games they play organs, in motorsports they donate them.

[BA_DirtDriver]

Chromoly really needs to be heat treated to give you all the benefits of the material properties. Hoek is right on with the brittle failure or cracking that occures at the heat affected zone at the edge of the weld. Some people shot peen to stress relieve, but I am not sure of the effectiveness of it. Maybe someone can post some links to data on this.

[Kritter]

"i know that i can by one stick or a thousand sticks and its all 2.62 a foot" If you buy 1000 bars...you can beat that price easily...not that you would buy that many, but quantity is key in the mat'l market or any market.

Kris
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[dunerking]

Just a little curious,but I'm not sure about the hole deal with the D.O.M. tubing.My last car was 100% chromoly,so I was just curious that when I go to start on my next car should I consider a D.O.M. chassis or stick with the chromoly?The chromoly treated me pretty well with the first car for type of driving I do.Just looking to get the heads up.

hit it hard

[Dave_G]

This thread is actually starting to crack me up!


Dave

"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"

[drtdevil93]

chromoly? come on.

with modern nutrition, human bones and muscle are stronger than ever. you dont need a cage that will hold up in a crash, you will probably heal eventually. i recommend using exhaust tubing, just to keep the race tech inspectors off your back. same for prerunners that want to be "that much cooler". and really, while im on the subject, automotive engineers are making things stronger than ever before, why upgrade suspension, or box frames, or install cages? i envision a future where there will be only one class in all desert racing: stock tacoma. who needs all that safety crap, and fuel cells, and upgraded brakes? waste of money. spend the money on stickers, paint, and a bumpin stereo.

erik